Have a 5" travel bike with 5" travel forks. Love it for all round riding, but am thinking more travel in the front would be good for the more techy stuff (BIG = GOOD?), and adjustable travel would be good to dial back down to 5" for general riding/climbing. Do people still make adjustable travel forks?

What bike would they be going on? I ask because most of the travel adjust forks are designed to be run in the full setting most of the time and dropped for steep climbing, whereas it sounds like you would be using them the other way around, dropped for most riding and full for the knarl.

I'd tend to agree with Dougal. Putting your fork up only for the nasty stuff just means that you'll be riding a bike that's taller and more tippy than you're used to, along with an unfamiliar fork. And in the gnar is when you need to be the most in touch with the bike.

140mm with good damping is very, very capable. 130mm with bad damping is horrendous. What's the current fork?

I, on the other hand can't live without the Dual Position on my Pikes.Tried climbing the steep stuff in Worsleys in 160mm mode and the bike is way more of a handful wandering all over the place.130mm is much better, only have my lack of fitness to blame.

That said, I don't tend to touch the U-Turn on the Sektors on the hardtail, mainly because it's the hardtail.

Easy and not too pricey mods on that fork. Revelation RCT3 compression damper and dual flow rebound will sort out the damping and that fork will go out to 150mm travels with the removal of the travel spacers... I'd run them at 140mm with the one 10mm spacer in the negative air chamber to up the plushnuss.

shmoodiver wrote:Easy and not too pricey mods on that fork. Revelation RCT3 compression damper and dual flow rebound will sort out the damping and that fork will go out to 150mm travels with the removal of the travel spacers... I'd run them at 140mm with the one 10mm spacer in the negative air chamber to up the plushnuss.